We all live in an age where knowledge has greater power and influence. People who display knowledge in their speech gain popularity and better control of the hearers. However, mere knowledge profits to no one. Unless we are able to demonstrate and live what we speak it has no meaning. People who gain fame through their knowledge display will soon lose their crowd of hearers and even earn some back biters.
Believers in Christ too are following this pattern these days, believing that display of their biblical knowledge may benefit the hearer. However, the world is watching our life and conduct without our realization. Unless the world sees that we are people who walk the talk, our knowledge display has no significance to others. At the same time we may be portraying a wrong picture about ourselves and the faith we follow...
Let us be like Apostle Paul who was always cautious to follow what he preached, whose letters edify and build the Church even to this day...
1 Corinthians 9:27 (New American Standard Bible)
but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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